The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling the decaying finger of a buried giant pushes up from the earth until it towers ...

"Here comes the motherf***ing bride!" insists a spectral Mary Shelley, the quasi-narrator of Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, who lives solely in the conscience of our titular character. Frankenstein's ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s time-shifting, genre-hopping riff on Mary Shelley’s creation stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as outlaws in love. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

There are more movies based on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” than nearly any other story ever published. But something’s missing from a lot of them. Most “Frankenstein” movies have a mad scientist, ...

Just as much as I am a fan of Tim Burton's films, I am equally enthusiastic about his longtime partner in crime. No I don't mean Johnny Depp, but Danny Elfman, the composer for almost all of Burton's ...

Tim Burton is a master of creating dark and quirky characters who live in magical and whimsical worlds. 2005's stop-motion animated film Corpse Bride is among his very best, and it was a hit among ...

Chaves will have shot three films since embarking on his first comic that is being published by Skybound/Image Comics: "It turns out, it is quicker to make movies than it is to make comics." By Borys ...

Wisconsin has extended the statute of limitations for the crime of hiding a corpse. The new law was inspired by the 1983 case of Starkie Swenson, whose remains were found in 2021. Previously, the ...

The rotting corpse flower’s putrid stench cast a spell Thursday across Roseville High School’s campus. The rare bloom hexed horticulture lovers to stop daily errands and teachers to pause lessons, all ...

Twenty Halloweens ago, Tim Burton conjured Corpse Bride, a fantasy fable that spans the world of the living and the land of the dead. Building on the stylings of The Nightmare Before Christmas, which ...

Nature lovers are in for a rare − and odorific − treat at the New York Botanical Garden, just in time for Halloween. "It’s happening soon! Our corpse flower has grown by leaps and bounds this week, ...